Privacy and Data Security

Privacy Statement

Thank you for your interest in our website.

The protection of your personal data is very important to us.

At this point we want to inform you about our data protection in our company. Of course we are respecting the legal regulations of the data protection law of the German Telemedia Act and other terms of the data protection law.

Concerning your personal data you can have confidence in us! It will be encoded and transferred to us by using digital security systems.

Subject matter of data protection

The subject matter of data protection is your personal data. In accordance with § 3 (1) of the German data protection law it is defined as particulars concerning personal and factual circumstances of a particular or determinable natural person. This concerns information like name, mail address, e-mail address or telephone number and if applicable also usage data like your IP- address.

General data protection instructions

When calling up the website of our company or downloading data of these sites information about this will be stored and processed in a log file. This process takes place anonymously.

Stored are: your IP- address, the date and the point of time of the page view or the site called up or the name of the called up data, the data quantity and the note whether the access/page view has been successful.

This data will not be used for commercial purposes. The evaluation solely serves as statistic processing and the improvement of our internet offer. For this purpose we will create user profiles by means of a pseudonym. There won’t be established a connection between the person behind the pseudonym and the usage data collected. Deletion of your data will be processed immediately after this usage. Permanent storage is precluded.

Your data will solely be used by us. No data will be given to third parties (if applicable: The procession concerning analysis of usage behavior takes place in location, state, a state outside the application of the directive 95/46/EG by… (example: Company Google Analytics). You have the right to object to the usage and processing by using the deactivation add-on (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

We use so called cookies for the collection and the storage of the data. Cookies are small data packages which your browser stores in your terminal equipment to our instigation. There they do not do any damage. They do not contain any computer viruses and do not give us the permission to spy you out. Utilized are two kinds of cookies. Temporary cookies are deleted automatically while shutting down the browser (session cookies). In contrast Permanent cookies have a maximum durability of … ( time period). This kind of cookies allows making you recognizable when recalling the page after having closed it. With the help of cookies it is possible for us to understand your usage behavior to the purposes mentioned above. This data we also solely collect in anonymous or pseudonymous form. You can set your internet browser so that our cookies are cannot be saved on your terminal equipment or already saved cookies will be deleted. For this you can use the opt-out-function of the following programs:..

Scope of data collection and –storage

In general for the usage of our website it is not necessary for you to indicate personal data. But in order to render effectively a service we need possibly need your personal data. This is applicable to the sending of information material or ordered goods as well as for answering individual requests.

If you engage us with rendering a service or the shipping of goods we solely collect or store your personal data as soon as it is necessary for the service delivery or the fulfillment of the contract. For this purpose it can be necessary to transmit your personal data to companies which we are employing for service delivery or for the fulfillment of the contract.

Those are for example transport companies or other services. If we carry out an action described in the following or any other action or if we render a services we want to collect and store your personal data and will request your express approval in the corresponding place of our website:

Further services and offers and their data collection your express agreement is required

After complete fulfillment of the contract your data will be blocked and after expiration deleted according to the regulations of tax and commercial law.

If you have signed up with your e-mail address for a newsletter we also use your e-mail address for our own advertising purposes beyond the execution of the contract.

Data collection for the usage of Google Analytics

Our website uses google analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. Google Analytics uses so called “cookies”. These are text files which are stored on your computer and which allow the analysis of your usage of the website.

Among other things information concerning the operating system, the browser and your IP address, your previously accessed page referrer URL) and the date and the point of time of your visit of the page will be stored.

The information on the usage of our website generated by these text files are transmitted to a server of google in the USA and saved there. Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of our website, to compile reports about the website activity for the website operator and to render other services according to the use of the website and the internet. As far as this is prescribed by law or third parties process data in by order of google, google also will give this information to those third parties. This usage takes place anonymously or pseudonymously. Further information on this topic you directly find on google: http://www.google.com/intl/de/privacypolicy.html#information

Google uses the DoubleClick DART-Cookie

Users can deactivate the use of DART- cookies by calling up the general terms of data protection of the advertising network and content- advertising network of google

In this process no directly personal data of the user is stored but solely the address of the internet protocol. This information serves to make you recognizable automatically during your next visit on our websites and to facilitate the navigation for you. Cookies allow us, for example, to adjust a website to your interests or to store your password so that you do not need to type it in every time.

Of course you can also view our website without cookies. If you do not want that we recognize your computer you can prevent the storage of cookies on your hard disk by choosing “don’t accept cookies” in your browser- settings.

You can prevent the installation of cookies by the correspondent setting of your browser. For this you need to shut down the storage of cookies in your internet browser. For further information on this topic please refer to the usage hints of your internet browser.

Privacy statement for the use of facebook- plug-ins (Like-Button)

On our pages plug-ins of the social network facebook South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated. On our website facebook plug-ins are identifiable by the “Like-Button”. Here you find a survey on the facebook plug-ins: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

During your visit of our pages a direct connection between your browser and the facebook server will be established.

Facebook receives the information as a result of your visit of our website with you IP- address. If you click on facebook “Like-Button” during you are logged in your facebook account you can link the contents of our pages to your facebook profile.

If you do not want that facebook can assign the visit of our pages to your facebook user account, please log out your facebook user profile.

In order to improve our websites we collect and store data as for example date and time of the page view, the page of which you called up our page and the like. This takes place anonymously without personally identifying the user. If applicable user profiles with the help of pseudonyms are created. Here again no connection between the person behind the pseudonym and the natural person with the collected data is established. We also use cookies for the for the collection and the storage of usage data.

It refers to small text files which are stored on your computer and which serve for the storage of statistic information like operating system, your browser, IP- address, the previously called up website (referrer URL) and the time. Data is solely collected for statistic purposes to improve our webpage and to make our internet offers even more attractive. The collection and storage solely take place anonymously and pseudonymously and do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about you as a natural person.

Use of data for a specific purpose

We respect the principle of the appropriate use of data and we collect, process and store your personal data only for the purposes for which you have communicated them to us. A transfer your personal data to third parties does not take place without your express agreement as far as this is not necessary for the service delivery or the execution of the contract. A transmission to public institutions and authorities entitled to receive information solely takes place within the scope of legal duty of disclosure or if we are obliged by a judgment to provide information.

We also take very seriously data security within our company. Our employees and the instructed service companies have been obligated to maintain secrecy and to comply with the rules on data protection.

Right to obtain information, correction and cancellation of all personal data

You have the right to request information about data saved by us free of charge and without giving reasons at any time and engage us to block data collected by us, to correct or delete it. You also can revoke your agreement to collect and use data without giving reasons at any time. For this please refer to the contact address indicated in the Legal Notice. If you have any further questions on our information and notices on privacy, data protection and the processing of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time.